In case you’ve been wondering, Ubisoft is indeed working on a new entry in its long-running Ghost Recon series. The news, which had been heavily rumored for a while now, was confirmed by Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot in what sounds like a heated shareholder meeting last week.
First reported by Game File, the confirmation of the the untitled Ghost Recon game came from a question about Ubisoft’s history with live-service titles. Touting the company’s success with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, Guillemot added, “In addition to the flagship game that I just mentioned, our objective is to also make strong progress in the growing market, generally speaking, by continuing to enhance our current experiences that we offer–and capitalizing on upcoming launches, such as The Division and Ghost Recon.”
Later on, Ubisoft’s CFO Frederick Duguet specifically called out the upcoming Ghost Recon title as one of the company’s “first-person-shooter-type games,” seemingly also confirming that the next entry will be an FPS. Though multiple titles in the franchise have offered first-person perspectives, the Ghost Recon games have largely been presented as third-person shooters since 2006’s Advanced Warfighter, making this a significant shift for the series.
A new first-person live-service Ghost Recon game is not an entirely unprecedented thing. Ghost Recon Wildlands was a huge success for Ubisoft back in 2017, one which the company built upon by quickly following it up with a worse-received sequel, Breakpoint. Despite the difference in their receptions, both of these titles enjoyed a great deal of post-launch support. Ubisoft, in a controversial move, even added NFTs, a form of digital collectible rooted in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, to Breakpoint back in 2021.
Despite the confirmation of a new Ghost Recon game, neither Guillemot nor Duguet provided any timeframe, suggesting that the title is still a ways out. In the meantime, Ubisoft is keeping busy, spinning off many of its core franchises into a new division–which is being co-led by Guillemot’s son–as part of its terms with Tencent, and finally greenlighting a Netflix adaptation of its popular Assassin’s Creed games.
